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Harold Pierce Cazneaux (30 March 1878 – 19 June 1953), commonly referred to as H. P. Cazneaux, was an Australian photographer; a pioneer whose style had an indelible impact on Australian photographic history. In 1916, he was a founding member of the pictorialist Sydney Camera Circle.
A New Beauty: the photography of Harold Cazneaux. Writing to the Australian photographic historian and writer Jack Cato in 1952, just a year before he died, Harold Cazneaux, recalled how the 1898 international exhibition of pictorialist photography forever changed him.
There is also a group of photographs taken by Cazneaux’s son, Harold Cazneaux (1920–1941) at a military camp at Raymond Terrace, New South Wales, in 1940. In addition to the photographs, the collection contains six pen and ink, pencil and charcoal drawings by Cazneaux.
Harold Cazneaux (1878–1953) is widely considered the greatest Australian photographer of the early 20th century. In portraiture, architectural and industrial photography, landscapes and documentary work, he showed versatility, great imagination and technical mastery, and inspired the next generation of Australian photographers.
Harold Pierce Cazneaux (1878-1953), photographer, was born on 30 March 1878 in Wellington, New Zealand, son of Pierce Mott Cazneaux, an English-born photographer, and his wife Emily Florence, née Bentley, a colourist and miniature painter from Sydney.
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Harold Cazneaux's portraits of influential Sydneysiders included Margaret Preston and Ethel Turner, both important figures in the development of ideas about Australian identity and culture. Harold Cazneaux came to Australia from his native New Zealand at the age of 11.
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Jun 13, 2019 · Fittingly captured in photos, National Gallery Senior Paper Conservator ANDREA WISE does a miraculous restoration of HAROLD CAZNEAUX'S portrait of Doris Zinkeisen from 1929, soon to be found in the National Gallery’s reimagined Australian art galleries.
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